A feed of recently purchased teen fiction books in the last 7 days. Updated daily at Howard County Library Systemhttp://www.hclibrary.org/index.php?page=80&rss=trueen-usThe haunting of Sunshine girl / <strong>Author:</strong> McKenzie, Paige,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 1602862729;9781602862722<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2015<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/30/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though Sunshine is adopted, she and her mother have always been close, sharing a special bond filled with laughter and inside jokes. But from the moment they arrive, Sunshine feels her world darken with an eeriness she cannot place. And even if Kat doesn't recognize it, Sunshine knows that something about their new house is just ... creepy.<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Haunted houses - Fiction. - Girls - Mothers and daughters - Adopted children - Washington (D.C.)<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA MCKE<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=566407http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=566407Half wild / <strong>Author:</strong> Green, Sally<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780670017133<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2015<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/30/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan has come into his own unique magical Gift, but he is on the run with the Hunters close behind, and they will stop at nothing until they have captured Nathan and destroyed his father.<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Witches - Fiction. - Fathers and sons - England<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA GRE<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=566384http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=566384Disney lands / <strong>Author:</strong> Pearson, Ridley,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781423184317<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2015<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/30/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> "With the defeat of the Overtakers behind them, the five teenagers known as the Kingdom Keepers should be celebrating. By all accounts they saved Disneyland from certain destruction. Why then did their mentor leave one last puzzle for them to decipher? The Keepers must solve a puzzle of the past, or be crushed under an evil that makes the Overtakers seem like gentle souls"--<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Puzzles - Fiction. - Time travel - Holography - Good and evil - Walt Disney World (Fla.) - Disneyland (Calif.)<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA PEA<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=566367http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=566367Black dove, white raven / <strong>Author:</strong> Wein, Elizabeth,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781423183105;142318310<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2015<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/30/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> Having moved to Ethiopia to avoid the prejudices of 1930s America, Emilia Menotti, her black adoptive brother Teo, and their mother Rhoda, a stunt pilot, are devoted to their new country even after war with Italy looms, drawing the teens into the conflict.<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 - Fiction. - Americans - Ethiopia - Brothers and sisters - Air pilots - Adventure and adventurers - Race relations - Adoption - History - 1889-1974<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA WEI<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=566365http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=566365Zits : shredded / <strong>Author:</strong> Scott, Jerry,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780062228536;0062228536<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2014<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/27/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> "Based on the hit comic strip Zits and featuring over 300 sidesplitting illustrations, Shredded follows high school sophomore Jeremy Duncan and his band, Goat Cheese Pizza, on an epic road adventure to record their first album. It's too bad that the only studio they can afford is all the way in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, but if they can just pump enough french-fry grease into their newly veggie-powered van, they actually might make it there!"--From publisher's website.<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Rock groups - Fiction. - Automobile travel - Sound recording industry - Teenage boys - Conduct of life - Cartoons and comics.<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA SCO<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=566115http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=566115Instinct / <strong>Author:</strong> Kenyon, Sherrilyn,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781250063861<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2015<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/27/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> "Nick has finally accepted his fate, now he must learn to defy his destiny, and the dark, deadly forces that will stop at nothing to destroy everyone he loves so that they can again return to the world of man and own it."--<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Supernatural - Fiction. - High schools - Schools - New Orleans (La.)<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA KEN<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565687http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565687Catch you later, traitor / <strong>Author:</strong> Avi,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781616203597;1616203595<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2015<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/26/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> "It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery. Could there really be Commies in Pete's family?"--<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Communism - Fiction. - Families - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - History - 20th century<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA AVI<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565702http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565702Sisters of blood and spirit / <strong>Author:</strong> Cross, Kady,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780373211487;0373211481<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2015<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/26/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> Twin sisters, one living in the Shadow Lands--the realm of the dead-- and one in the land of the living, are called upon to try and save a boy and his friends who have been marked for death by a long-dead serial killer.<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Twins - Fiction. - Dead - Sisters - Ghosts - Horror stories.<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA CRO<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565696http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565696Bike thief / <strong>Author:</strong> Feutl, Rita,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781459805705;1459805704;9781459805699;1459805690<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2014<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/26/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> "Nick just wants to replace the TV his sister accidentally broke before their foster parents find out. To repay the debt, the sixteen-year-old has to steal bikes, break them down and rebuild them to sell. But the debt and the violence keep growing. Even Nick's own beloved fixed-gear bike--the fixie he built with his dad--is up for grabs"--Page 4 of cover.<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Foster children - Fiction. - Bicycles - Thieves<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA FEU<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565673http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565673Rocket man / <strong>Author:</strong> Coates, Jan,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780889954946;0889954941<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2014<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/26/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> Feeling invisible as the middle child, Bob gets the chance to shine when he is asked to plan a basketball game to support cancer research, but his father, who suffers from cancer, may not be able to make the game when he lands in a wheelchair after a fall.<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Fathers and sons - Fiction. - Cancer - Basketball - Fund raising<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA COA<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565669http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565669The storyspinner / <strong>Author:</strong> Wallace, Becky,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781481405652;9781481405669<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2015<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/26/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> The Keepers, a race of people with magical abilities, are seeking a supposedly-dead princess to place her on the throne and end political turmoil but girls who look like the princess are being murdered and Johanna Von Arlo, forced to work for Lord Rafael DeSilva after her father's suspicious death, is a dead-ringer.<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Fantasy. - Magic - Fiction. - Identity - Princesses - Murder<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA WAL<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565667http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565667Sherlock Holmes in A study in scarlet / <strong>Author:</strong> Doyle, Arthur Conan,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780062293756<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2015<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/26/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> When a Scotland Yard detective asks for assistance, Sherlock Holmes uses his powers of rational, reasoned observation and deduction to solve a murder case.<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Holmes, Sherlock - Fiction. - Great Britain. - Murder - Investigation - Mystery and detective stories.<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA DOY<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565664http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565664Better than perfect / <strong>Author:</strong> Kantor, Melissa,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780062279231;0062279238<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2015<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/26/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> Setting high ambitions for an Ivy League education and successful life, Juliet begins questioning her strict family rules in the face of her father's abandonment, her mother's instability, and her growing feelings for a boy.<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Family life - Fiction. - Interpersonal relations - High schools - Schools<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA KAN<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565663http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565663Razorhurst / <strong>Author:</strong> Larbalestier, Justine,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781616955441<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2015<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/25/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> In 1932, in Sydney's deadly Razorhurst neighborhood, where crime and razor-wielding men rule, two girls with contrasting lives who share the ability to see ghosts meet over a dead body and find themselves on the run from mob bosses.<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Criminals - Fiction. - Organized crime - Ghosts - Sydney (N.S.W.) - History - 20th century - Australia<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA LAR<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565529http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565529My heart and other black holes / <strong>Author:</strong> Warga, Jasmine,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780062324672;0062324675<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2015<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/25/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can barely look at her without wincing, classmates who whisper behind her back, and a father whose violent crime rocked her small town, Aysel is ready to turn her potential energy into nothingness. There's only one problem: she's not sure she has the courage to do it alone. But once she discovers a website with a section called Suicide Partners, Aysel's convinced she's found her solution -- Roman, a teenage boy who's haunted by a family tragedy, is looking for a partner. Even though Aysel and Roman have nothing in common, they slowly start to fill in each other's broken lives. But as their suicide pact becomes more concrete, Aysel begins to question whether she really wants to go through with it. Ultimately, she must choose between wanting to die or trying to convince Roman to live so they can discover the potential of their energy together.<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Kentucky - Fiction. - Teenagers - Suicide - Interpersonal relations<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA WAR<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565520http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565520The dark water / <strong>Author:</strong> Fishman, Seth,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780399159916;0399159916<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2015<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/25/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> "Mia and her friends resurface at the well's end to discover an astounding underground civilization, and immediately find themselves drawn into a terrible civil war"--<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Adventure and adventurers - Fiction. - Prisoners - War - Ability - Fathers and daughters - Single-parent families - Virus diseases - Science fiction.<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA FIS<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565518http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565518Dorothy must die : stories / <strong>Author:</strong> Paige, D. M.,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 0062280791;9780062280794<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2015<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/25/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> "This bind-up of three prequel novellas to the New York Times bestselling Dorothy Must Die series follows Dorothy Gale as she transforms from good girl to Wicked Witch. Kiss the land where troubles melt like lemon drops goodbye. Here there's danger around every corner, and magical shoes won't be able to save you"--Page 4 of cover.<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Oz (Imaginary place) - Fiction. - Witches - Wizards - Fantasy.<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA PAI<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565513http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565513The tightrope walkers / <strong>Author:</strong> Almond, David,<br \><strong>ISBN:</strong> 0763673102;9780763673109<br \><strong>Year:</strong> 2014<br \><strong>Date added:</strong> 03/24/2015<br \><strong>Summary:</strong> Coming of age in the shadow of northern England's shipyards, young Dominic is torn between the extremes of his shipbuilder family's lifestyle, a complex bully to whom he finds himself irresistibly drawn, and the tightrope-walking girl he loves.<br \><strong>Subjects:</strong> Bullying - Fiction. - Shipbuilding - Love<br \><strong>Call number:</strong> YA ALM<br \>http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565287http://polaris.hclibrary.org/polaris/view.aspx?cn=565287